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newsfeed for busy web developers
Draw SVG rope using JavaScript

https://muffinman.io/blog/draw-svg-rope-using-javascript/

1211
66
Golang disables Nagle's Algorithm by default

https://withinboredom.info/blog/2022/12/29/golang-is-evil-on-shitty-networks/

806
370
Hard truths I learned when I got laid off from my SWE job

https://www.stevenbuccini.com/8-hard-truths-on-getting-laid-off

1012
570
How to Befriend Crows

https://fediscience.org/@ct_bergstrom/109571409346371116

800
216
“Nobody cares about your blog”

https://mssprovenance.blogspot.com/2022/12/nobody-cares-about-your-blog.html

617
125
Merry Christmas, HN

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34121082

1659
221
Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang#hn-moderator

1452
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John Carmack Leaves Meta

https://www.facebook.com/100006735798590/posts/i-resigned-from-my-position-as-an-executive-consultant-for-vr-with-meta-my-inter/3467566940144465/

1875
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Twitter applies 7-day suspension to half a dozen journalists

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

1109
1659
ElonJet Is Now Suspended

https://twitter.com/jxcksweeney/status/1603028610209779712

1417
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US Department of Energy: Fusion Ignition Achieved

https://www.energy.gov/articles/doe-national-laboratory-makes-history-achieving-fusion-ignition

2786
1021
SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

https://twitter.com/tier10k/status/1602446984090107905

1308
812
Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

https://www.ft.com/content/4b6f0fab-66ef-4e33-adec-cfc345589dc7

1065
801
Just use Postgres for everything

https://www.amazingcto.com/postgres-for-everything/

707
430
I liberate the ending to Minecraft from Microsoft and give it to you

https://theeggandtherock.substack.com/p/i-wrote-a-story-for-a-friend

989
739
Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2022/12/dwarf-fortresss-graphical-upgrade-provides-a-new-way-into-a-wildly-wonky-game/

747
267
Apple to move 40-45% iPhone production to India

https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-china-factory-protests-foxconn-manufacturing-production-supply-chain-11670023099

640
340
Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

https://www.engraved.blog/building-a-virtual-machine-inside/

2029
908
Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

https://twitter.com/coinbasewallet/status/1598354819735031809

939
904
Show HN: Trading cards made with e-ink displays

https://www.wyldcard.io/blog/introducing-wyldcard

1149
291
Tales of the M1 GPU

https://asahilinux.org/2022/11/tales-of-the-m1-gpu/

1014
367
Intentionally making close friends

https://www.neelnanda.io/blog/43-making-friends

1076
307
Front end developers: stop moving things that I’m about to click on

https://medium.com/@stephenjayakar/frontend-developers-stop-moving-things-that-im-about-to-click-on-5827bc0409b3

839
352
maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

https://garrit.xyz/posts/2022-11-24-smart-move-google

1373
383
Why Twitter didn’t go down: From a real Twitter SRE

https://matthewtejo.substack.com/p/why-twitter-didnt-go-down-from-a

1009
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Kite is saying farewell and open-sourcing its code

https://www.kite.com/blog/product/kite-is-saying-farewell/

1083
528
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html

794
166
Fred Brooks has died

https://twitter.com/stevebellovin/status/1593414068634734592

1516
211
Two weeks of dealing with Google as a developer

https://danfitdegree.hashnode.dev/nothing-has-ever-angered-me-more-than-the-google-play-team

913
330
Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client

https://engineering.fb.com/2022/11/15/open-source/sapling-source-control-scalable/

926
525
What if regular exercise is the best cognitive exercise?

https://blog.vslira.net/2022/11/what-if-regular-exercise-is-best.html

564
373
Bubbles

https://oimo.io/works/bubbles/

1985
175
Accidental Google Pixel Lock Screen Bypass

https://bugs.xdavidhu.me/google/2022/11/10/accidental-70k-google-pixel-lock-screen-bypass/

1592
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Meta lays off 11,000 people

https://about.fb.com/news/2022/11/mark-zuckerberg-layoff-message-to-employees/

2048
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Twitter’s mass layoffs have begun

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/03/twitter-layoffs-elon-musk/

1039
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Ex-Reddit CEO on Twitter moderation

https://twitter.com/yishan/status/1586955288061452289

1175
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American society is so focused on race that it is blind to class

https://www.economist.com/leaders/2022/11/02/american-society-is-so-focused-on-race-that-it-is-blind-to-class

794
830
NASA finds super-emitters of methane

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-finds-more-than-50-super-emitters-of-methane-180981045/

767
357
Nascar driver stuns to qualify for championship with GameCube move

https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2022/10/random-nascar-driver-stuns-to-qualify-for-championship-with-gamecube-move

1207
431
Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, has died

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/29/kathleen_booth_obit/

1252
140
Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/28/elon-musk-owns-twitter-the-story-so-far/

898
1796
Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza

https://giza.mused.org/en/guided/266/inside-the-great-pyramid

1752
280
I Fell 15,000 Feet and Lived (2009)

https://uss-la-ca135.org/60/1960Judkins-Knott.html

707
257
I help seniors with technology issues

https://twitter.com/_danilo/status/1583169632516509697

1276
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The HTTP crash course nobody asked for

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/the-http-crash-course-nobody-asked-for

902
141
NASA’s Webb takes star-filled portrait of Pillars of Creation

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-takes-star-filled-portrait-of-pillars-of-creation/

727
191
Sound

https://ciechanow.ski/sound/

3053
206
Low Earth Orbit Visualization

https://platform.leolabs.space/visualization

780
187
Private Prisons Are Behind the Push for Homeless Criminalization

https://invisiblepeople.tv/private-prisons-for-homeless-criminalization/

696
601
Improving Firefox Responsiveness on macOS

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2022/10/improving-firefox-responsiveness-on-macos/

780
374
Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

https://nltimes.nl/2022/10/09/dutch-employee-fired-us-firm-shutting-webcam-awarded-eu75000-court

575
454
Granting Pardon for the Offense of Simple Possession of Marijuana

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/presidential-actions/2022/10/06/granting-pardon-for-the-offense-of-simple-possession-of-marijuana/

787
762
How fateful?

https://chan.co.za/how-fateful

1120
331
Postgres WASM

https://supabase.com/blog/postgres-wasm

887
185
Stadia died because no one trusts Google

https://techcrunch.com/2022/10/01/stadia-died-because-no-one-trusts-google/

724
611
Google is shutting down Stadia

https://www.theverge.com/2022/9/29/23378713/google-stadia-shutting-down-game-streaming-january-2023

2090
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Someone is pretending to be me

https://connortumbleson.com/2022/09/19/someone-is-pretending-to-be-me/

2244
383
Mozilla reaffirms that Firefox will continue to support current content blockers

https://www.ghacks.net/2022/09/24/mozilla-reaffirms-that-firefox-will-continue-to-support-current-content-blockers/

642
201
Nightdrive

https://incoherency.co.uk/blog/stories/nightdrive.html

1440
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2-in-1 calculator app adds up to surprise hit for retired engineer

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20220916/p2a/00m/0sc/017000c

979
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US border forces are seizing Americans' phone data and storing it for 15 years

https://www.engadget.com/us-border-forces-traveler-data-15-years-085106938.html

810
545
Adobe to acquire Figma for $20B

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-15/adobe-is-said-to-near-deal-to-buy-online-design-startup-figma

2348
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Patagonia founder gives away the company

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/14/climate/patagonia-climate-philanthropy-chouinard.html

955
455
FB feed is 98% suggested pages and barely any friends' posts

https://old.reddit.com/r/facebook/comments/tvqddc/fb_feed_is_98_suggested_pages_and_barely_any/

775
443
Ladybird: A new cross-platform browser project

https://awesomekling.github.io/Ladybird-a-new-cross-platform-browser-project/

1341
473
Atkinson Hyperlegible Font

https://brailleinstitute.org/freefont

799
234
Visual effects for the Indian blockbuster “RRR”

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/visual-effects-for-the-indian-blockbuster-rrr/

770
292
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

https://experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eating

742
348
Bitwarden raises $100M

https://bitwarden.com/blog/accelerating-value-for-bitwarden-users-bitwarden-raises-usd100-million/

967
497
Why A4? – The Mathematical Beauty of Paper Size

https://scilogs.spektrum.de/hlf/why-a4-the-mathematical-beauty-of-paper-size/

750
608
After self-hosting my email for twenty-three years I have thrown in the towel

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/after-self-hosting-my-email-for-twenty-three-years-i-have-thrown-in-the-towel-the-oligopoly-has-won.html

1887
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Blocking Kiwifarms

https://blog.cloudflare.com/kiwifarms-blocked/

994
1631
Run Stable Diffusion on Your M1 Mac’s GPU

https://replicate.com/blog/run-stable-diffusion-on-m1-mac

1007
401
US Government Bans Export of Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs to China and Russia

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581022000146/nvda-20220826.htm

723
624
The Big [Censored] Theory

https://pudding.cool/2022/08/censorship/

1444
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One kitchen, hundreds of internet restaurants

https://peabee.substack.com/p/17-one-kitchen-hundreds-of-internet

685
355
Slack’s free plan change is causing an exodus

https://blog.zulip.com/2022/08/26/why-slacks-free-plan-change-is-causing-an-exodus/

687
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Guidance to make federally funded research freely available without delay

https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/08/25/ostp-issues-guidance-to-make-federally-funded-research-freely-available-without-delay/

1044
267
Design the next iPhone

https://neal.fun/design-the-next-iphone/

1463
352
A dad took photos of his toddler for a doctor – Google flagged him as a criminal

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/21/technology/google-surveillance-toddler-photo.html

949
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Brian Kernighan adds Unicode support to Awk

https://github.com/onetrueawk/awk/commit/9ebe940cf3c652b0e373634d2aa4a00b8395b636

618
208
Resolving an unusual WiFi issue

https://blog.ando.fyi/posts/diagnosing-an-unsual-wifi-issue/

594
122
Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds

https://www.vibilagare.se/nyheter/physical-buttons-outperform-touchscreens-new-cars-test-finds

1614
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Twilio incident: What Signal users need to know

https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/4850133017242

672
478
I hacked my car

https://programmingwithstyle.com/posts/howihackedmycar/

688
134
Arrest of suspected developer of Tornado Cash

https://www.fiod.nl/arrest-of-suspected-developer-of-tornado-cash/

446
793
A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/this-17-year-old-designed-a-motor-that-could-potentially-transform-the-electric-car-industry-180980550/

753
285
Instagram can track anything you do on any website in their in-app browser

https://krausefx.com/blog/ios-privacy-instagram-and-facebook-can-track-anything-you-do-on-any-website-in-their-in-app-browser

1258
449
An incident impacting 5M accounts and private information on Twitter

https://privacy.twitter.com/en/blog/2022/an-issue-affecting-some-anonymous-accounts

807
450
To uncover a deepfake video call, ask the caller to turn sideways

https://metaphysic.ai/to-uncover-a-deepfake-video-call-ask-the-caller-to-turn-sideways/

864
274
Fake IMDB credits

https://peabee.substack.com/p/16-the-case-of-fake-imdb-credits

552
240
Cramming 'Papers, Please' onto Phones

https://dukope.com/devlogs/papers-please/mobile/

1297
180
What’s the strangest thing you ever found in a book?

https://noctslackv2.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/whats-the-strangest-thing-you-ever-found-in-a-book/

1070
467
Use one big server

https://specbranch.com/posts/one-big-server/

1413
585
Librarian's Letter to Google Security

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f6HPQbUjslcbjVHkJkAgYmQmBV3PRRHEcx4WL5rxuE8/preview

1082
461
Google Timer is gone

https://www.google.com/search?q=6+minute+timer

560
323
ImHex – A Hex Editor

https://github.com/WerWolv/ImHex

467
70
AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe

https://www.deepmind.com/blog/alphafold-reveals-the-structure-of-the-protein-universe

633
236
SQLite Internals: Pages and B-trees

https://fly.io/blog/sqlite-internals-btree/

667
142
Emoji Kitchen

https://emoji.supply/kitchen/

850
190
More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade

https://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/more-invested-in-nuclear-fusion-in-last-12-months-than-past-decade-2560528/

692
663
Cheap junk flooding Amazon has brand names like MOFFBUZW

https://twitter.com/ColeSouth/status/1550230795230781440

880
408
EU Digital Markets Act, aimed at Google, Apple, Amazon, approved

https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2022/07/18/dma-council-gives-final-approval-to-new-rules-for-fair-competition-online/

1098
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I've started using Firefox and can never go back to Chrome

https://www.techradar.com/in/features/ive-started-using-mozilla-firefox-and-now-i-can-never-go-back-to-google-chrome

1180
674
Scratch is a big deal

https://www.bryanbraun.com/2022/07/16/scratch-is-a-big-deal/

1017
296
How I Experience the Web Today

https://how-i-experience-web-today.com/detail.html

421
156
Woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/jul/14/melbourne-woman-dehumanised-by-viral-tiktok-filmed-without-her-consent

704
611
Amazon admits giving police Ring camera footage without consent

https://theintercept.com/2022/07/13/amazon-ring-camera-footage-police-ed-markey/

818
510
Compare Webb's Images to Hubble

https://johnedchristensen.github.io/WebbCompare/

1636
244
Deepest infrared image of universe

https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard/2022/nasa-s-webb-delivers-deepest-infrared-image-of-universe-yet/

1136
347
Uber broke laws, duped police and built lobbying operation, leak reveals

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-global-lobbying-campaign

965
528
I should have loved biology

https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/

1048
271
Notice of termination of Twitter merger agreement

https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1418091/000110465922078413/tm2220599d1_ex99-p.htm

1324
1455
Starlink Maritime

https://www.starlink.com/maritime

606
508
Apple previews Lockdown Mode

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/07/apple-expands-commitment-to-protect-users-from-mercenary-spyware/

1577
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Kubernetes is a red flag signalling premature optimisation

https://www.jeremybrown.tech/8-kubernetes-is-a-red-flag-signalling-premature-optimisation/

542
550
Watching an acquirer ruin your company

https://startupwin.kelsus.com/p/watching-an-acquirer-ruin-your-company

361
338
How much health insurers pay for almost everything is about to go public

https://khn.org/news/article/health-insurers-price-transparency-public-rates-costs/

766
359
Coinbase is reportedly selling geolocation data to ICE

https://theintercept.com/2022/06/29/crypto-coinbase-tracer-ice/

769
417
Thunderbird 102

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2022/06/thunderbird-102-released-a-serious-upgrade-to-your-communication/

811
452
Things to know about databases

https://architecturenotes.co/things-you-should-know-about-databases/

730
241
Life is not short

https://dkb.show/post/life-is-not-short

820
500
My awakening moment about how smartphones fragment our attention span

https://idratherbewriting.com/blog/awakening-moment-to-how-smartphones-fragment-our-attention/

552
221
Supreme Court Overturns Roe vs. Wade

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-supreme-court-decision-854f60302f21c2c35129e58cf8d8a7b0

1765
3463
Italian watchdog bans use of Google Analytics

https://www.gpdp.it/web/guest/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/docweb/9782874#english

942
587
GitHub Copilot is generally available

https://github.blog/2022-06-21-github-copilot-is-generally-available-to-all-developers/

863
760
Webcams aren't good enough

https://reincubate.com/support/how-to/why-are-webcams-bad/

704
588
Cold Showers

https://github.com/hwayne/awesome-cold-showers

629
355
Cheat sheet for if I'm gone

https://thoughtscollected.tech/posts/for-when-im-gone/

495
189
The Floppotron 3.0

http://silent.org.pl/home/2022/06/13/the-floppotron-3-0/

1398
128
“Code” 2nd Edition

http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2022/06/Announcing-Code-2nd-Edition.html

1036
171
Sunsetting Atom

https://github.blog/2022-06-08-sunsetting-atom/

1320
853
I've locked myself out of my digital life

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/06/ive-locked-myself-out-of-my-digital-life/

729
492
Dear Spotify, can we just get a table of songs?

https://neil.computer/notes/dear-spotify-can-we-just-get-table-of-songs/

1077
484
Tell HN: I'm Afraid We're Shutting Down

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31598978

1633
353
So I took a corporation to arbitration

https://www.shuchow.com/so-i-took-a-huge-corporation-to-arbitration/

986
399
In praise of the humble Sheffield stand

https://twitter.com/BrixtonHatter/status/1493299809574342659

563
228
My students cheated... a lot

https://crumplab.com/articles/blog/post_994_5_26_22_cheating/index.html

1840
1402
FTC fines Twitter $150M for using 2FA phone numbers for ad targeting

https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2022/05/twitter-pay-150-million-penalty-allegedly-breaking-its-privacy-promises-again

1362
325
How This Ends

https://avc.com/2022/05/how-this-ends-2/

479
674
Lotus 1-2-3 For Linux

https://lock.cmpxchg8b.com/linux123.html

703
83
“Amateur” programmer fought cancer with 50 Nvidia Geforce 1080Ti

https://howardchen.substack.com/p/this-amateur-programmer-fought-cancer

1143
329
The new and upgraded Framework Laptop

https://community.frame.work/t/introducing-the-new-and-upgraded-framework-laptop/18646

1680
738
I spent two years launching tiny projects

https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_spent_two_years_launching_tiny_projects

923
197
The Apple GPU and the impossible bug

https://rosenzweig.io/blog/asahi-gpu-part-5.html

965
95
Twitter CEO fires two top executives, freezes hiring

https://www.theverge.com/2022/5/12/23068851/twitter-product-chief-kayvon-beykpour-bruce-falck-parag-agrawal

1032
936
Nvidia releases open-source GPU kernel modules

https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-releases-open-source-gpu-kernel-modules/

2410
392
I'm all-in on server-side SQLite

https://fly.io/blog/all-in-on-sqlite-litestream/

1353
404
PowerToys – open-source Windows utilities

https://www.fourth-wall.co.uk/post/powertoys-11-awesome-features-microsoft-won-t-add-to-windows

676
319
Apple's director of machine learning resigns due to return to office work

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/05/07/apple-director-of-machine-learning-resigns/

1069
703
Including “And. And. And. And. And.” in a Google doc causes it to crash

https://support.google.com/docs/thread/162510194/including-and-and-and-and-and-in-a-google-doc-causes-it-to-crash?hl=en

1473
411
Mechanical Watch

https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/

4298
413
I won free load testing

https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-won-free-load-testing

461
134
How to professionally say

https://howtoprofessionallysay.akashrajpurohit.com/

979
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Internet Archive joins opposition to the “SMART Copyright Act”

http://blog.archive.org/2022/03/29/internet-archive-joins-opposition-to-the-smart-copyright-act/

616
171
Airbnb’s design to live and work anywhere

https://news.airbnb.com/airbnbs-design-to-live-and-work-anywhere/

961
716
Bits of advice I wish I had known

https://kk.org/thetechnium/103-bits-of-advice-i-wish-i-had-known/

1109
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Report: 90% of nurses considering leaving the profession in the next year

https://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/report-90-nurses-considering-leaving-profession-next-year

1367
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Twitter set to accept Musk's $43B offer – sources

https://www.reuters.com/technology/exclusive-twitter-set-accept-musks-best-final-offer-sources-2022-04-25/

2498
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No one expects young men to do anything and they are responding by doing nothing

https://robkhenderson.substack.com/p/no-one-expects-young-men-to-do-anything

704
1098
My upgrade to 25 Gbit/s Fiber To The Home

https://michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2022-04-23-fiber7-25gbit-upgrade/

753
507
Changing std:sort at Google’s scale and beyond

https://danlark.org/2022/04/20/changing-stdsort-at-googles-scale-and-beyond/

566
156
Framework Laptop Mainboard

https://github.com/FrameworkComputer/Mainboard

1019
250
Web scraping is legal, US appeals court reaffirms

https://techcrunch.com/2022/04/18/web-scraping-legal-court/

1040
237
The best engineering interview question I've ever gotten

https://quuxplusone.github.io/blog/2022/01/06/memcached-interview/

893
448
When hiring developers, have the candidate read existing code

https://freakingrectangle.wordpress.com/2022/04/15/how-to-freaking-hire-great-developers/

996
543
Elon Musk makes $43B unsolicited bid to take Twitter private

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-14/elon-musk-launches-43-billion-hostile-takeover-of-twitter

2747
3078
Inside the longest Atlassian outage

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/scoop-atlassian

1232
738
New(ish) command line tools

https://jvns.ca/blog/2022/04/12/a-list-of-new-ish--command-line-tools/

760
244
Heresy

http://paulgraham.com/heresy.html

929
1337
Dall-E 2 illustrations of Twitter bios

https://twitter.com/nickcammarata/status/1511861061988892675

848
394
Canada to ban foreigners from buying homes

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-04-06/canada-to-ban-some-foreigners-from-buying-homes-as-prices-soar

790
793
Dall-E 2

https://openai.com/dall-e-2/

1820
485
One App – Two Worlds: This Is TikTok in Russia and Ukraine

https://www.nrk.no/osloogviken/xl/tiktok-doesn_t-show-the-war-in-ukraine-to-russian-users-1.15921522

1260
348
Jd

https://code.jsoftware.com/wiki/Jd/Overview

1212
129
Due to failure in the IT system, it is not possible to run any trains today

https://www.ns.nl/en/travel-information/calamities/sunday-3-april-no-more-ns-trains.html

651
355
A few things to know before stealing my 914

https://www.hagerty.com/media/advice/a-few-things-to-know-before-you-steal-my-914/

1501
417
Google terminated our Developer Account, says it is “associated”

https://old.reddit.com/r/androiddev/comments/ts6jfg/google_has_terminated_our_developer_account_says/

997
477
FTC sues Intuit for its deceptive TurboTax “free” filing campaign

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/03/ftc-sues-intuit-its-deceptive-turbotax-free-filing-campaign

1552
588
Reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles

https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/we-are-reinstating-our-sat-act-requirement-for-future-admissions-cycles/

1191
1100
Mourning loss as a remote team

https://www.sofuckingagile.com/blog/mourning-loss-as-a-remote-team

1199
386
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues

https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-built-a-receipt-printer-for-github-issues/

811
169
The end of the nice GTK button

https://blog.brixit.nl/the-end-of-the-nice-gtk-button/

878
647
But life had other plans

https://danlebrero.com/2022/03/23/but-life-had-other-plans/

1718
225
Hackers claim to have breached Okta systems

https://twitter.com/_MG_/status/1506109152665382920

1158
375
Please put units in names

https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2022/03/20/please-put-units-in-names

1284
594
Windows needs a change in priorities

https://den.dev/blog/windows-priority-shuffle/

1194
859
First images from James Webb telescope exceed expectations

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/exploration/first-photos-james-webb-telescope/

840
265
Zotero 6

https://www.zotero.org/blog/zotero-6/

768
190
How our free plan stays free

https://tailscale.com/blog/free-plan/

684
200
EU to make it mandatory to use customer-replaceable batteries in household items

https://www.eevblog.com/forum/dodgy-technology/not-dodgy-at-all-and-long-overdue-user-replaceable-batteries/

1099
637
Earn-IT threatens encryption and therefore user freedom

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/earn-it-threatens-encryption-and-therefore-user-freedom

990
201
Apple M1 Ultra

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/03/apple-unveils-m1-ultra-the-worlds-most-powerful-chip-for-a-personal-computer/

1168
828
The campaign to shut down YouTube-dl continues

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/campaign-shut-down-crucial-documentary-tool-youtube-dl-continues-and-so-does-fight

775
252
Fire extinguished at Ukraine nuclear power plant, Europe's largest

https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/top-wrap-1-europes-largest-nuclear-power-plant-fire-after-russian-attack-mayor-2022-03-04/

978
841
My Stripe Tax Story

https://gist.github.com/humandoing/5ec7c224691282532db0b9dc37797d7c

665
285
Google mandates workers back to Silicon Valley, other offices from April 4

https://www.reuters.com/technology/google-mandates-workers-back-silicon-valley-other-offices-april-4-2022-03-02/

1044
1297
Namecheap: Russia Service Termination

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30504812

1735
1825
'50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

https://www.pcgamer.com/uk/50-of-transactions-were-fraudulent-when-steam-accepted-bitcoin-for-payments-says-gabe-newell/

477
324
Russian forces invade Ukraine after Putin orders attack

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-orders-military-operations-ukraine-demands-kyiv-forces-surrender-2022-02-24/

2278
1814
I shaved 187MB off United Airlines' 439MB iOS app

https://telkins.dev/posts/how-i-shaved-187mb-off-uniteds-airlines-439mb-ios-app/

626
439
Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

https://www.raptitude.com/2016/12/five-things-you-notice-when-you-quit-the-news/

1256
703
Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

https://chromium.woolyss.com/f/HTML-Google-Tag-Manager-the-new-anti-adblock-weapon.html

1384
867
Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2007-02-19&p=1

1450
202
Worldle

https://worldle.teuteuf.fr/

879
226
Passwordle

https://rsk0315.github.io/playground/passwordle.html

956
249
Google Search Is Dying

https://dkb.io/post/google-search-is-dying

3636
1561
City Generator

https://watabou.github.io/city-generator/

1211
52
What does it mean to listen on a port?

https://paulbutler.org/2022/what-does-it-mean-to-listen-on-a-port/

853
220
Key senators have voted for the anti-encryption EARN IT act

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/key-senators-have-voted-anti-encryption-earn-it-act

736
327
Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

https://www.cnil.fr/en/use-google-analytics-and-data-transfers-united-states-cnil-orders-website-manageroperator-comply

1172
1095
Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-60312633

1128
792
Heuristics that almost always work

https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-always-work

1000
520
Adobe tricks users into a 12 month contract

https://twitter.com/darkpatterns/status/1489901640777973768

1607
565
Poll: Where do you live?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30210378

986
535
Facebook loses users for the first time

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/02/02/facebook-earnings-meta/

1749
1352
Career advice nobody gave me: Never ignore a recruiter

https://alexchesser.medium.com/career-advice-nobody-gave-me-never-ignore-a-recruiter-4474eac9556

790
619
Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

https://www.them.us/story/hiv-aids-vaccine-human-trials-moderna

1049
449
Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

https://royalsociety.org/news/2022/01/scientific-misinformation-report/

1016
926
I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to

https://www.bastionzero.com/blog/i-read-the-federal-governments-zero-trust-memo-so-you-dont-have-to

656
352
AirPods don't “just work”

https://philip.design/blog/airpods-dont-just-work/

927
937
Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

https://twitter.com/theryanking/status/1485784823641755648

1165
314
I got pwned by my cloud costs

https://www.troyhunt.com/how-i-got-pwned-by-my-cloud-costs/

1398
641
Ask HN: Gmail account security

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30051054

1508
774
Open-Sourcing our Firmware

https://frame.work/blog/open-sourcing-our-firmware

1168
368
Roblox October Outage Postmortem

https://blog.roblox.com/2022/01/roblox-return-to-service-10-28-10-31-2021/

687
310
1Password Has Raised $620M

https://blog.1password.com/future-of-1password/

681
700
GPS

https://ciechanow.ski/gps/

2900
285
The curious case of the Raspberry Pi in the network closet (2019)

https://blog.haschek.at/2019/the-curious-case-of-the-RasPi-in-our-network.html

799
262
Statistical Rethinking (2022 Edition)

https://github.com/rmcelreath/stat_rethinking_2022

471
124
PayPal faces lawsuit for freezing customer accounts and funds

https://www.engadget.com/paypal-lawsuit-freezing-customer-accounts-funds-073128563.html

814
311
CSS Gradients that avoid the “gray dead zone”

https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/make-beautiful-gradients/

1075
141
New Year, New CEO

https://signal.org/blog/new-year-new-ceo/

939
322
Upwork asking me for a $12.5k refund as the client was using someone else’s card

https://alanany.com/2021/12/23/upwork-12k-refund-client-using-another-credit-card/

1142
485
James Webb is fully deployed

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-webb-telescope-reaches-major-milestone-as-mirror-unfolds

1384
494
My First Impressions of Web3

https://moxie.org/2022/01/07/web3-first-impressions.html

3393
1127
What the world will be like in a hundred years (1922)

https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045774/1922-05-07/ed-1?sp=87

805
640
We handle 80TB and 5M page views a month for under $400

https://blog.polyhaven.com/how-we-handle-80tb-and-5m-page-views-a-month-for-under-400/

766
401
Elizabeth Holmes found guilty

https://www.axios.com/theranos-elizabeth-holmes-verdict-df20ad3f-95bd-400c-bf42-a379ade65c2c.html

1712
1234
Search engines and SEO spam

https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1477760548787920901

592
534
Boeing 777 departing Dubai nearly had a major incident after takeoff

https://onemileatatime.com/news/emirates-terrifying-boeing-777-flight-washington/

780
556